Key Concepts
This chapter introduces five key concepts reframing traditional nonharmonic tone categories:
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Enlargement of Foreign Notes into Groups - The transformation of traditional single-note dissonances into multi-note structures that function as complete, self-contained musical units
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The Pedal Group - A sustained or repeated musical structure, foreign to the surrounding harmonic context, possessing its own internal musical organization
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The Passing Group - A musical structure that reproduces the terms of a harmonic progression symmetrically while functioning analogically to traditional passing motion
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The Embellishment Group - A complex ornamental gesture that elaborates a single structural pitch while functioning as a complete musical unit
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Upbeats and Terminations - The structural articulation points that frame and define musical gestures, forming the upbeat-accent-termination complex